Pre-school Learning

HC Deb 08 March 1999 vol 327 cc71-2W

Mr. Maclean.

To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if he will estimate the number of children who received pre-school learning in(a) 1997 and (b)1998. [73347]

Ms Hodge

The full-time equivalent number of pupils under compulsory school age receiving pre-school education was 773,693 in Spring 1997 and 811,958 in Spring 1998.

(b) The Teacher Training Agency. The publication of agendas and documents is not a statutory requirement.

(c) The British Educational Communications and Technology agency; the Construction Industry Training Board; the Engineering Construction Training Board; the Funding Agency for Schools; the Further Education Funding Council; the Higher Education Funding Council for England; Investors in People UK; the Student Loans Company; and, the Teacher Training Agency. Publishing the members' register of interests is not a statutory requirement.